This weeks spotlight is Don Miller from MakingSalesMakingMoney.com

I work with Don on 2 separate projects and I can tell you that Don is one Passionate guy. His passion

is for people!

Landon:
as far as MSMM.com goes, how much time do you spend writing and how much time do you spend
marketing your posts?

Don:
Frankly, I am a content guy first and I generally do a significant amount of time thinking about my content.
So to answer your question, I don’t stop thinking, as for the actual writing of a post, I can pound out what
I need in about an hour.

Marketing my material? Not quite as much as I used to, at least not the way I used to. I generally post
everything on Blogging Zoom and let it pretty much go from there. I have found that once you have
established a presence, people find you more often than we think and that is part of the model I like
to follow. Just like thinking I market when I’m awake, perhaps using different techniques and different
venues than you might think.

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In the spotlight this week is one of my favorite bloggers and internet marketers, Courtney Tuttle.

Don’t worry, this isn’t your typical ass kissing interview, this is a look at Court from a different angle.

I am doing a series within a series with Court where we will be creating an ongoing interview, if you will.

The point of this is to find a benchmark and follow along in an unorthodox way. By follow along I mean

just that, I will follow along and pry out of him the “what” and “how” he builds his business. Now don’t get me

wrong, Courtney discloses so much on his blog Courtneytuttle.com that you can literally start an online

endeavor his advice and not looking for it elsewhere.

However, I like to figure out what goes on behind the scenes how a “project” came together from idea

conception through to a via business.

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One of my “new” favorite People, Gary Vaynerchuk- pronounced (Vay Ner Chuk) did a post on the difference between aps like Twitter and FaceBook and I have an opinion I need to express. I am a social nut! But heres what I need in a social community as far as usability.

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I have spent the last year of my life thinking about how I can build the business and the life I have always thought about and desired to have.  I am on the verge of what will become my “footprint” on the world, both in the business aspect as well as the personal.

I have a dream like so many others. What will set me apart from the heard of sheeple? What do I have that is so different? Why me and not Joe down the street? There are several reasons why, and over the next 6 months this will become clear to many of you. I hope you get the meaning and the idea of what I am about to say

I am not going to tell where I will be in 6 months or 2 years from now, I will not try and predict what my “stats” will be on some future date and I will not make this a series of “see where I’m at now” and then try to impress you or anyone else.

The following will hopefully sink in and remind you of some simple real life principals that exist in every success story, whether that story is about money, personal triumph, or love… and everything else one can strive to achieve.

There are 2 main principles that shine through every written “success manual” ever put on paper, all the way back to when stone tablets were the “paper.”

if you want to achieve a higher level of success… 1. The best and fastest way to do so is to surround yourself with people who have already achieved that level.

2. Become an expert in one or two things and surround yourself with people who are experts in all the other aspects of your pursuit.

There are, of course, many other pieces to a “successful” pursuit, but if you have those other pieces, i.e. knowledge, will, desire, ability, and so on, there are two principles that have to be part of the equation: A group of experts in your crew and you becoming an expert.
The #1 method to go from the level you are at to the level you want to attain is to create a group of people around you who can teach, support, and leverage the skills, knowledge, and resources each individual has, for the group as a whole.

Yes, there are other aspects that must be present, but if you look at even a couple of examples of real success, you will find a group of professionals who have come together to push the every member of that group to a much higher level than what could have been accomplished alone. Period, end of story. I am not talking about it in the way Grandpa Hilton paved the way for his granddaughters, instead I’m talking of how he did it for himself.

I won’t post statistics, and I won’t say “look at me.”  What I am encouraging you to do is to take a look at the way I go about business and whom I do business with. That is what this site is all about and that is what my new site is based on. This will be the ride of a lifetime, and I hope you, too, will dive in and join us.

Who’s your crew?

Do You Vlog? If you have ever put one video on your blog, you need to see this. Once again, Ben is offering his install and customization service for FREE. I think he’s nuts, but that’s just me. How many hours are there in a day? 24? He must not need sleep.

Take the inadequate free themes and put ‘em in the recycle bin, they don’t work anymore, not for you and not for me. We don’t use VCR’s anymore do we? Nope. Well here is your invite, if you need one, to get a professional looking theme. Your blog deserves it. Period.

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The Blog Entrepreneur

The Blog Entrepreneur has found himself in the spotlight, whether he likes it or not.
This is officially the first “spotlight” post. Bill from TBE has kindly agreed to be our first.

Put your tongue back into your mouth, it’s not like that.

The Blog Entrepreneur …

Clean, uncluttered, not stuffed with ads.

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You want to blog?

What is your intention with it? Aare you doing it for fun? To share with your friends? To make money? Did I hit a nerve with the last one? Good!

You cant make money blogging?

Dont listen to the stream of “you cant make money blogging” bs that everyone is spouting. You have to do it right though. You cant jump in and think it will come easy. There is a lot of nonsense out there but the one thing they are all saying, if you know what to listen for, is blogging makes money.

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If you have been following this series you should now have a handful of people that fit your personality whom you would like to add to your crew. You have been commenting on their blog and they have hopefully been responding and maybe even commenting on your blog.

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Remember your mom scolding you about the “bad” kids? And the kind of trouble they would get you in? She was right!

The message was clear after a couple years when these kids started getting in trouble with the cops.

Glad I wasn’t friends with them anymore or I would be in handcuffs wondering why I set fire to that pet store and what jail was going to be like. All of this at the ripe old age of 15. I cant even imagine what that was like.

Moms message also had an equally drastic reverse meaning that I began to understand that day.

The people I was “running with” were getting good grades hanging out with the hot girls and the popular kids who were good natured and fun. These people also liked to raise hell, and we did our share of it but common sense kept us out of serious trouble.

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In the last couple of days I have been analyzing the avatars I see on other peoples blogs and at least 9 times out of 10 I’m thinking to myself, who the hell are you?!?

You took the time to make a blog. You took the time to create a mybloglog account. You take the time to read other peoples blogs. And you take the time to be an active blog owner. And you don’t take the time to be recognizable? Nice job keeping your blog a secret!

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